The Key to Kells by Kevin O’Connor is an exciting read. We follow Key Murphy, an almost police officer, who gets visions of an old Irish monk who fought against the Vikings and saved a treasure. The valuable object is a book, the Book of...

Kelly Miller's historical novel Accusing Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation is a well-crafted intriguing romance and murder mystery. Set in the Regency era, the story draws inspiration from Jane Austen. The principal characters are Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourn and Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley....

Arabella’s Assistant: Book 1 of the Raised All Wrong series, by Judy Lynn Ichkhanian is a historical romance novel that tells the tale of Lady Arabella Warwick. She is beautiful and refined but is a bluestocking. She is impoverished and must find money quickly to...

An Old Shrew, a Tortured Soul, and Everyday Angels is a murder mystery by Rosina Anderson. After World War II ended, a few places had been obliged to take in a large number of displaced persons who had nowhere else to go. Such happenings invited...

Delilah Recovered by Amelia Dellos is a fantasy novel with just the right amount of action. Dee was unemployed and about to be evicted when her life changed. She was attacked by two men who claimed they were witch hunters and wanted her dead. That...

It's a slow day at the office for Kit Comfort at the Comfort and Company detective agency until Dina Harris walks into her life and offers her an assignment. She wants the company to track down her fiance who has been missing ever since he...

The Seventh Reel by C.J. Booth takes on a subject that most mystery fiction writers shy away from. When President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in the streets of Dallas in 1963, despite the official findings of the Warren Commission, the incident remains an...

Rod Vick’s The Book of Invasions is an outstanding illustration of what a great novel should be. The events and moments are a mash-up of significant historical occurrences. A 5,000-year-old artifact is found in the melting ice at a Greenland ecological research station in the...

Justice For All: The Search for Big Poker Tom by Wayne E. Purcell takes place in the sleepy town of Bridgeport, California in the year 1891. A member of the Paiute nation (Native Americans of the region), known as Big Poker Tom, rode into the...

The Poe Predicament is a historical fiction mystery thriller by Phil Thomas. Recently divorced former college professor Richard Langley's life turns upside down when he gets his hands on an old copy of Tamerlane and Other Poems signed by Edgar Allen Poe himself. Soon, Richard...